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We create for every age and audience, anchored by the strength of our content and experiences and the depth of our connection with fans. We are creator-first, audience-focused, tech-forward, globally scaled.\nHere, you’ll work with talented teams that move fast, think boldly and collaborate with purpose to deliver results. We aim high, champion the best ideas and win together, earning the trust of our employees, creators, partners and audiences every day.\nIf you’re energized by the opportunity to help build the next-generation global media and entertainment company powered by creativity and technology, we’d be thrilled to welcome you aboard. LET’S GO!\nPosition: Lead Software Engineer - Android\nLocation: US - In Office (LA, NY, SF)\nAbout This Role\nParamount is looking for a hardworking Lead Software Engineer - Android to develop cohesive solutions to content based technical obstacles. The role will be end-to-end from understanding the goals and roadmaps of the product and engineering teams, through design and architecture of any solution and the delivery and maintenance of those platforms once in place.\nThis role involves engineering for the Android platform and developing AI. You will use AI agents and coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and Copilot daily. You will also collaborate with ML and data science teams on features for clients.\nWe are seeking someone who will participate in the definition of product requirements, being able to articulate how the engineering effort will align to those requirements and provide accurate estimates of the effort. You will also be involved in platform architectural discussions and initiatives paving the way for optimizations and performance alongside.\nYou will also be working with a team of engineers through the development process, including implementing standards around code, tooling, metrics, progress reporting and interactions with the QE team to ensure a quality first approach to any work.\nResponsibilities\nTechnical Leadership:\nDrive the architectural direction and design of Android applications\n\nEstablish best practices for coding, testing, and deployment\n\nEvangelize new tools, frameworks, and processes for continued innovation and development efficiency\n\nPrepare architectural diagrams and technical specifications for the engineering team to deliver high quality, maintainable software\n\nLead architectural discussions around feature development and software development best practice\n\nInvolvement in performance and playback optimizations, overall app stability and profiling\n\nApplication Development:\nDesign, develop, test, and deploy new solutions as well as maintaining, integrating and improving existing solutions using modern technologies and industry best practices\n\nEnsure robust performance, responsiveness, and quality of applications, troubleshooting and debugging as needed\n\nAI-Integrated Development:\nLeverage AI-driven coding assistants like Copilot, Cursor, or Claude as a core component of the daily engineering lifecycle, including architectural design, implementation, and refactoring\n\nPartner with technical leadership to establish and optimize safe, high-impact practices for utilizing AI tools within the development team\n\nDrive cross-functional initiatives to integrate LLM and ML capabilities into product features, such as advanced search, discovery, and personalized content understanding\n\nMentorship:\nMentor mid- and senior-level engineers, sharing technical expertise and guiding professional growth\n\nParticipate in code reviews to maintain code quality and consistency across the team\n\nCross-Functional Collaboration:\nWork closely with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to clarify requirements\n\nCoordinate with backend services and APIs to ensure seamless integration and feature delivery\n\nProcess Improvement:\nEnhance software development processes and policies, driving continuous improvement in code quality, development speed, and overall team productivity\n\nStay current with emerging Android technologies, libraries, and trends, recommending their adoption where beneficial\n\nOwnership and Accountability:\nPartner closely with the Android Engineering Manager on development strategies\n\nEnsure the application is highly responsive and performant\n\nSafeguard against production incidents\n\nEnable engineers to deliver mission-critical features and enhancements\n\nIdentify technical risks and potential bottlenecks, proposing solutions to mitigate them\n\nSkills\nExpertise in Android Development:\nProficient in Kotlin and Java, with a solid understanding of the Android SDK and different Android versions\n\nDeep knowledge of Architecture Patterns and Material Design (e.g., MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture, Compose UI)\n\nExperience using Gradle and Android Studio\n\nExperience following and implementing software design patterns\n\nSystem Design & Architecture:\nProven ability to design scalable, high-performing, and secure Android applications\n\nExperience integrating complex RESTful APIs and third-party libraries\n\nTesting and Quality Assurance:\nSolid experience in writing unit tests, UI tests, and automated tests using frameworks like JUnit, Espresso, and others\n\nFamiliarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions)\n\nPerformance Optimization:\nAbility to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, including memory leaks, slow rendering, and network inefficiencies\n\nSkilled in using performance profiling and optimizations (e.g., Android Profiler, Leak Canary)\n\nLeadership and Communication:\nAbility to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to engineers, stakeholders, and executives\n\nStrong mentoring skills, with a track record of developing and inspiring high-performing teams\n\nBasic Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)\n\n7+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 6 years focused on Android development\n\nDemonstrated history of leading and delivering multiple large-scale Android projects in a production environment with multiple scrum teams in an agile process\n\nProven track record of architectural ownership and driving technical decisions\n\nYou should have strong interpersonal skills. You will need to facilitate conversations with business partners. This includes discussions during project definition, business requirements definition, and functional design sessions.\n\nEye for quality and user experience\n\nTranslate business objectives into software requirements\n\nDesired Qualifications\nHands on software development on the Android/Android TV/Amazon/Amazon Fire TV platform\n\nHave shipped one or more apps to the Google Play and/or Amazon app store\n\nExperience working remotely with globally distributed and multiple interdisciplinary teams\n\nExperience working on Android projects with multi-module architecture\n\nExperience with assistive technologies such as JAWS/VoiceOver, ZoomText, and keyboard-only input methods\n\nExperience evaluating front-end code against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)\n\nExperience in creating accessible front-end designs. This includes using TalkBack properties in XML, like labelFor and contentDescription. It also involves making TalkBack announcements, scaling text dynamically, and ensuring responsive design.\n\nAI Literacy\nHands-on, daily use of AI coding assistants such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent, with a clear sense of what these tools are good and bad at\n\nComfort writing effective prompts, structuring context, and evaluating AI-generated diffs critically before they land in the codebase\n\nWorking understanding of LLMs, embeddings, retrieval, and prompt engineering, enough to design client integrations and reason about latency, cost, and failure modes\n\nYou should have useful experience in shipping or prototyping at least one product feature that uses machine learning (ML) or large language models (LLM). This could include features such as search, ranking, personalization, content understanding, or in-app assistants.\n\nJudgment about responsible AI use: privacy, IP, attribution, and when a human review gate is required\n\nBonus Skills (Nice To Have)\nExperience with Video Streaming (HLS / MPEG-DASH)\n\nExperience working with ExoPlayer\n\nWidevine DRM knowledge\n\nParamount+, a direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service from Paramount Global, combines live sports, breaking news, and a mountain of entertainment. The premium streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel. The service is also the streaming home to unmatched sports programming, including every CBS Sports event, from golf to football to basketball and more, plus exclusive streaming rights for major sports properties, including some of the world’s biggest and most popular soccer leagues. Paramount+ also enables subscribers to stream local CBS stations live across the U.S. in addition to the ability to stream Paramount Streaming’s other live channels: CBSN for 24/7 news, CBS Sports HQ for sports news and analysis, and ET Live for entertainment coverage.\nADDITIONAL INFORMATION\nHiring Salary Range: $156,800.00 - 235,200.00.\nThe hiring salary range for this position applies to New York, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable, as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement. This position is bonus eligible.\nWhat We Offer:\nAttractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages. Check out our full list of benefits here.\nGenerous paid time off.\nComplimentary subscriptions to HBO Max, Paramount+, and other Skydance streaming services and digital news products.\nRobust employee engagement opportunities, including access to exclusive screenings and events, speaker series, volunteer activities and more.\nSkydance is an equal opportunity employer (EOE)\nWe embrace the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit. In line with the laws of the country or region in which the role is based, this includes consideration without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship status, religion or belief, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or protected veteran status, union status or any other category protected by applicable law.\nIf you are a qualified individual with a disability, you may request a reasonable accommodation during the job application and/or recruitment process. You can request reasonable accommodations by calling 212.846.5500 or by sending an email to . 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